David Hingtgen

Yes, Wal-Mart, Target etc has them cheaper than BBTS.

A few Botcon toy news highlights: 4th Leader-class RotF toy coming Fall of 2010. (I wonder if they mis-spoke and meant Fall 2009). Not Blackout. Wouldn't say if it is Starscream. Human Alliance Barricade. Legends Devastator coming to US in Spring of 2010, probably a giftset. I plan to import now, as I'm not waiting a year... MP Skywarp coming to US, more toy-accurate colors. MP Grimlock---not coming yet, may be a store exclusive within 18 months--they want to bring it out, just no way to do so yet.

150 is possible for a human in Star Trek----medical advances. Admiral McCoy was like 140 in TNG...

All I can say is "we told you so."

Ransack rocks, just FYI.

Generally, no. But the exact image you posted was an "event", and a plot point. I mean, it's not even hinted at on the packaging of the first wave or two of toys--therefore, they're trying to keep it secret. Thus, it's a spoiler. IMHO, almost anything that is "newly revealed" from now until release day is going to be a spoiler---there's only a month to go. Pretty much every major toy and character has been revealed. However, not all ASPECTS of every toy/character have been revealed--spoilers can still be had from characters we already know about. PS---I consider the ice cream truck a spoiler.

Typhoon: Superior to the Super Flanker and Raptor in gourmet mustard delivery. Seriously, they flew a jar of mustard over at great taxpayer expense. http://www.croatiantimes.com/index.php?id=4059

Maybe someday I'll try to edit out the lower arms (and railing), but that's probably beyond my ability.

Fine, here, best I could do at the time (they actually changed the lighting as it panned too--talk about making it hard to stitch screencaps together): (PM me if you want the bigger version)

If they want the female demographic, why not Meryl? Established, liked character with little actual screen time so far. (plus, it'd make all the "beauty" face camo work a whole lot better if they include stuff like that in the next game)

You know there are no really good pics, just the one screen cap everyone already has. (and the one composite I tried to make as the camera panned, but since she moved her arms during the scene, it's kind of a 4-armed composite)

Hopefully, Grace art.

Nora rocks. You never have to worry about "duplicate" valks with that scheme. (unlike the Roy-esque VF-0, VF-1, and every other Roy/Jolly Rogers repaint, or the many Max-esque or Hikaru-esque ones, etc)

Still unsure how much of the lower arms, but I still say about 90% of the lower legs are kibble. Kibble=anything not present on a real SR-71.

The GoBot.

Is there a pic of the underside in plane mode? From what I can make out, the lower arms and lower legs (minus the fins) do not correspond to any part of an SR-71. Just because they're black and visually blend into the "real" parts, doesn't mean they're not kibble.

I sure thought it was incredibly well set-up for a future series. That or it was part 2 of a 3-parter, and they just decided to end it, having run out of time/budget. (though that's par for the course now for just about any show---always leave the possibility open for more seasons, or at least a movie)

Umm, even though that's a top view, I can see a lot of kibble under the plane's belly. See my pic of a real Blackbird above.

What would the alternative be? Taxiing at high speed in the next lane over from Prime and Bumblebee?

I'm willing to forgive most of it, due to being an SR-71. There's pretty much no way to make a "minimal kibble" transforming SR-71, due to the SR-71 being all area, with no internal volume: The only way it could ever work is to basically be a combiner of itself---some parts in each nacelle, and the head in the cockpit, then split off those 3 major sections, combine them into a small bot, then try to fold up a bunch of leftover black panels into a backpack. (or somehow have all wing and chine bits separate into individual plates and re-attach to form armor plating around the limbs--cool, but impractical) (admittedly, the Jetfire toy has nothing in its nacelles AFAIK, and it could have had SOME robot parts stored in them, and not under the belly----could have reduced the kibble at least a bit) Most obvious choice are his thighs--they are his engines, so if the engines were in the nacelles, they wouldn't be hanging under the tailcone in jet mode. Then you could move a bit of the "side" kibble back where they were, and so on.

2 valks a month? How much do you smoke?!?!

18in? Honestly figured bigger than that.

I am so buying Leader Jetfire. He's just gigantic in jet mode. (and honestly, everyone on this forum likes big transforming jet toys)

Mirromaru has posted a few more pics of her Macro Klan cosplay: http://www.cosplay.com/gallery/a45364/

::resists posting pics of Grace's suit::